Like most kids who'd play cricket in the backyard, Hugh and Angus Le Lievre always dreamed of saving a match together.
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On Saturday, the pair got the chance to live out that dream as they took nine wickets between them to save CYMS from a loss that not only looked inevitable, but also would have all but sunk the green and gold's chances at finals.
"That's one of the best wins I've been a part of in my time at CYMS," a very happy Hugh Le Lievre said on Sunday.
While he admitted he'd always imagined winning a game with his brother "with bat in hand", he said the win - with CYMS defending 203 against City Colts was brilliant.
"To do it in Bathurst, with our season on the line and well behind the eight ball, we've got our destiny back in our own hands," Le Lievre said.
"Last week we did well to get to 200 with Dave and Al Dhatt putting on 200, they were 1-80 and although we got two late wickets they were in front."
Heading into day two, Le Lievre was hoping to keep it simple, and he did. He and Angus bowled 35 overs between them, combining for figures of 9-75 with 11 maidens, with five wickets for Hugh and four for Angus.
"I thought if we could get in and get wickets early and put the pressure on them we'd have a chance and that's exactly what we did," he said.
"Wasn't the initial plan to bowl the all day but we were able to build that partnership and put the pressure on them, and I benefited from (Angus') really good spell."
Le Lievre said he was conscious of the aggressive approach City Colts often have towards the slower bowlers, meaning Chris Novak and Al Dhatt only had three overs between them - going at 11 an over off each of them while the quicker Angus Wilson and Aquinder Dhillon had a combined 0-15 from eight overs.
"We were moving a bit off the seam and and we were getting it to reverse as well," Le Lievre said.
"It's taken a while but we've finally clicked in the back end of the season."
He said the club putting destiny back into its own hands with one round to go - the fourth spot is theirs to lose against Orange City next weekend, was a really positive sign, and Le Lievre knows as well as anyone that anything can happen on the big stage.
"All you've got to do is make it and as you saw with the Royal Hotel Cup last week anything can happen," he said, citing CYMS' shock loss to St Pat's Old Boys last weekend in the Twenty20 competition.
CYMS can retain fourth place with defeat but it would require losses for Centennials, Rugby Union and Bathurst City to be 100 per cent certain of holding the spot.
